If this is your first visit, be sure to
check out the FAQ by clicking the
link above. You may have to register
before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages,
select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

If you registered recently and can not get in you may have to register again. We had to delete some users that were awaiting confirmation when we upgrade the software on June 1, 2011.

Thanks for you understanding.

New Users:Please read: As a new user you will be able to post but there are some limitations. Depending on your behavior and participation level you will soon become a fully registered user. Please hang in there and understand that this is needed to keep out spammers.

The fifth u.s. Artillery, battery d, hazlett's battery is looking for a few good men or women age 14-104 for our active 2013 season. We are an independent civil war u.s artillery battery reenactment group based out of northern/northwestern virginia. Our captain is tom lomax of linden, va. We have two napoleon cannons and limbers. We will be having a battery meeting on or about december 1st, 2012 to plan our coming year. Please contact first sergeant jan david kopacz at 571-572-0594 or email bizjet@verizon.net (all lower case) for further details.

Good luck with your efforts! Have been a fan of Hazlett's Battery since I was very young, and one of my earliest memories of visiting Gettysburg involves their position on Little Round Top; just wondering, any plans to portray different units? Plenty of batteries that historically had Napoleons out there to be represented, though Hazlett used Parrott rifles, right?

Hi Marc,
We not only honor Lt. Hazlett, but we also had a Medal of Honor recipient, Owen McGough.

No plans to portray other units at this time. We have been doing Battery D for so long we feel we ARE Battery D. A number of our members are professional teachers.

Personally, I do galvanize, whenever an artillery unit of either side needs an extra grunt, as I travel with my wife, Nancy Jennis Olds, photojournalist of the "CIVIL WAR NEWS". I also have a number of friends in the 54th U.S. infantry and attend many of their programs in an about Washington, DC.

Battery D does have big plans from now until the 150th of Appomattox where we will definitely honor the surrender. Both Capt. Tom and myself were at the 100th ( a LONG time ago) of First Bull Run though we did not know each other at the time. We want to be at the 150th of the "end of the war" together and with our artillery brothers, old and new. We will be at Cedar Creek and Fort Pocahantas (Battle of Wilson's Warf) as well.

The fifth u.s. Artillery, battery d, hazlett's battery is looking for a few good men or women age 14-104 for our active 2013 season. We are an independent civil war u.s artillery battery reenactment group based out of northern/northwestern virginia. Our captain is tom lomax of linden, va. We have two napoleon cannons and limbers. We will be having a battery meeting on or about december 1st, 2012 to plan our coming year. Please contact first sergeant jan david kopacz at 571-572-0594 or email bizjet@verizon.net (all lower case) for further details.

Yes, Hazlett used Parrots. Wish we had them too but the Capt. Tom takes great care of his Napoleons and they are beauties.

"But our opportunity to learn and grow, to communicate the richness of the lives that have gone before us, that does not change. We do not outgrow it. It does not tatter and fall apart in our hands..." -Mrs. Terre Lawson, 2010

Join the artillery

We recently relocated to the Winchester VA area and were thinking of getting more involved in the civilian side of things (getting a bit too old to be running around the fields!) but artillery might be interesting as well. Please reply with good times to contact you.

We recently relocated to the Winchester VA area and were thinking of getting more involved in the civilian side of things (getting a bit too old to be running around the fields!) but artillery might be interesting as well. Please reply with good times to contact you.

Sth u.s. Artillery will participate at fort pocahontas may 18 & 19 2013

THE 5TH U.S. ARTILLERY WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE 2013 FORT POCAHONTAS AT WILSON'S WHARF REENACTMENT THIS YEAR ON MAY 18 & 19. WE CAN USE SOME GOOD ARTILLERY MEN, male or female ages 14-87. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN JOINING US IN THIS REENACTMENT Please give me a call at 571-572-0594 anytime. Jan, First Sgt., 5th U.S. Artillery jdkopacz@verizon.net.